History YMMV / TheGamer

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Some wonder if, deep down, Jee-Han is actually a [[TheSociopath sociopath]] that truly enjoys killing others, and uses the Gaming ability as an excuse for having such murderous thoughts, or whether he really was just your run-of-the-mill game addict until the world forced an ability on him that ''forces'' his mind to work the way it does, and his resulting views and thoughts on violence and death are merely the byproduct. To his credit, he does at least seem disturbed by the fact that he's not disturbed by it.

* BrokenBase: Readers can't seem to decide what they want more of; watching the main character powering up his Gamer abilities, or expand the story to be on a much grander scale. At first, people were getting sick of all the basic training chapters surrounding Jee-Han, but when the series finally started to develop its ExpandedUniverse with the "Company" arc, people instead complain that they only want to read this manhwa for Jee-Han's gamer abilities.

** FandomSpecificPlot: One that lends itself specifically to {{Fusion Fic}}s. X Character from Y Series gets the Gamer powers, ''Go.''

* MoralEventHorizon: After Jee Han sees Hyung Gin's "collection," he comes dangerously close to jumping over the edge. [[spoiler: Fortunately, Sung Il, and a sizable portion of the Chunbunmoon clan is there to stop him.]] Later,[[spoiler: in chapter 165 he is tasked with taking down a mad necromancer, who was kidnapping innocent victims for magical and other purposes. After the fight he seriously considered "finishing the job"(not helped by the fact that the chun-bu-moon doesn't have a strict [ThouShallNotKill] policy) but he's stopped by Sae-Young. However she notes that he might be able to kill for real now if he has to]]

* LauncherOfAThousandShips: So far, Jee-Han has been paired with [[FieryRedhead Shi-Yun]], [[IllGirl Sung-Ah]] and [[TheTease Sae-Young]]. Some even go so far to pair him off with the [[CuteWitch Slaughter Witch]], and his best friend, [[HoYay Sun-Il]]. Did we mention that he has a [[LoliconAndShotacon loli]] for an Earth summon? Chapter 102 later adds [[ClassRepresentative Kim Yoo-Jin]] to the shipping list.

** Afterward, the series went straight back into world-building and level grinding mode with what can be summed up as the "Age of the Great Labyrinth" arc, much to the displeasure of those looking for a more coherent plot, leading to massive walls of comments about how stupid the author is and the seeming lack of logic behind Jee-Han's decisions. This is, once again in spite of the fact that Jee-Han's ''[[MisaimedFandom level-grinding was designated as the focal point of the series from the start!]]''

** After ''The Gamer'' reached around 40 chapters, some readers began to get tired of all the world-building, and basic-training chapters, revolving around Jae-Han powering up his Gamer abilities, and just wish for some sort of plot, or StoryArc, to start up to truly get the web-toon moving. This has started to die down by around chapter 60 due to the introduction of the first noteworthy enemy of the series, the "Black Rock" magician faction. Finally, after the end of what can be called the "Black Rock" arc (which is just a few chapters long, mind you, in comparison to the 40+ chapters of grinding), the fandom feared the series would go back to more mindless grinding before the plot advanced for real, but fortunately, it's currently building to what seems to be the climax of the whole arc which started with Sung-Gong's appearance.

* BrokenBase: Readers can't seem to decide what they want more of; watching the main character powering up his Gamer abilities, or expand the story to be on a much grander scale. At first, people were getting sick of all the basic training chapters surrounding Jae-Han, but when the series finally started to develop its ExpandedUniverse with the "Company" arc, people instead complain that they only want to read this manhwa for Jae-Han's gamer abilities.
** Gets worse when Kim Yoo Jin joins Jae Han's UnwantedHarem. Despite many, many fans hating Jae Han for having a Gamer's Mind skill, and the sheer popularity of fan-fiction showing how he'd act if he didn't have one, when Kim Yoo Jin gains the Gamer ability, or something close to it, but lacks the Gamer's Mind skill to go with it, the fanbase predominantly does not like her, at all, even considering the fact that she's actually ''more competent'' than Jae Han was when he was at the same level of experience, and is almost universally liked, in universe.
* DieForOurShip: While Kim Yoo Jin literally [[TookALevelInBadass Took Several Levels In Badass]] in chapter 137, and surprisingly holds up better in battle than Jae Han when he was at a similar level of experience, and this is without an obvious "Gamer's Mind" ability that forcefully makes her analyze her surroundings in a calm and rational manner, most fans are not happy with her and want her to go away so the story can focus more on the other ladies in Jae Han's life, such as Kwon Shin-Yun, Hwan Sung-Ah, Lolikano, or even Poon Sae Young, despite the fact that Kim Yoo Jin has no problems sharing him with them, and for the most part, all of Jae Han's other female friends, at worst, are perfectly willing to tolerate her affections.

** In-universe and lampshaded. The Chunbu Spirit Technique [[http://www.mangahere.com/manga/the_gamer/c014/6.html (summarized here)]] passively increases all of Jee-Han's stats, save for luck, by ten percent, and the amount they're amplified by will also increase as he increases his inner ki and MP. Oh, and it lets him increase his maximum MP, permanently, via meditation, separately from his level and skills, which naturally increases his physical stats in the process. Jae-Han immediately takes note of just how ''exploitable'' the technique is.
--->'''Jae-Han:''' This technique is almost as cheaty as my gamer ability! (...) This is a completely broken ability!\\

** In chapter 139, Jae Han's ability ''literally'' becomes a game-breaker as he outright destroys the Great Labyrinth game.

** During most of the first large scale battle, Jae Han isn't present. We were left with him watching things from within a hole made by Gnome, leading to the "in a hole" meme. Later seemingly acknowledged by the author when Jae Han finally jumps in and says, "What, did you think I was spending all this time in a hole?" after revealing what his plan was.
** Infinite Spinning Mana Arrow spam! [[note]]Becomes Jae Han's go to Gamer skill during fights against his enemies. Given that it's infinite, the attack is usually used as the final blow. It also becomes quite an overused attack compared to any other Gamer skill Jae Han has at his disposal that readers joke how he's become someone who just spams one attack.[[/note]]

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Some wonder if, deep down, Jee-Han is actually a [[TheSociopath sociopath]] that truly enjoys killing others, and uses the Gaming ability as an excuse for having such murderous thoughts, or whether he really was just your run-of-the-mill game addict until the world forced an ability on him that ''forces'' his mind to work the way it does, and his resulting views and thoughts on violence and death are merely the byproduct. To his credit he does at least seem disturbed by the fact that he's not disturbed by it.

* MoralEventHorizon: After Jee Han sees Hyung Gin's "collection," he comes dangerously close to jumping over the edge. [[spoiler: Fortunately, Sung Il, and a sizable portion of the Chunbunmoon clan is there to stop him.]]Later,[[spoiler: in chapter 165 he is tasked with taking down a mad necromancer, who was kidnapping innocent victims for magical and other purposes. After the fight he seriously considered "finishing the job"(not helped by the fact that the chun-bu-moon doesn't have a strict [ThouShallNotKill] policy) but he's stopped by Sae-Young. However she notes that he might be able to kill for real now if he has to]]

* MoralEventHorizon: After Jae Han seens In Hyung Gin's "collection," he comes dangerously close to jumping over the edge. [[spoiler: Fortunately, Sung Il, and a sizable portion of the Chunbunmoon clan is there to stop him.]]Later,[[spoiler: in chapter 165 he is tasked to take down a mad necromancer, who were kidnapping for magical and other purpose innocents victims. After the fight he seriously considered to "finish the work"(not helped by the fact that the chu-bu-moon doesn't have a strict [ThouShallNotKill] policy) but he's stopped by Poong Sae-Young. However she note that he might be able to kill for real now if he have to]]

* SnarkBait: Translators just can't resist making snide comments about the story scenes in the margins. In chapter 136, when Kim Yoo Jin shows concern that the boss of floor 7 will turn out to be a Kraken, the translators say "this will turn into a hentai in a hurry."

* BrokenBase: Readers can't seem to decide what they want more of; watching the main character powering up his Gamer abilities, or expand the story to be on a much grander scale. At first, people were getting sick of all the basic training chapters surrounding Jae-Han, but when the series finally started to develop its ExpandedUniverse with the "Company" arc, people instead complain that they only want to read this manhwa for Jae-Han's gamer abilities. In the end, it just goes to show that UnpleasableFanbase has hit this series pretty hard.

* FanficFuel: The whole "Game Interface" idea has spawned waves of this type of fic across almost every action-based fandom in some shape or form. Ironically enough, there are few to no fics about the series itself!

* MoralEventHorizon: After Jae Han seens In Hyung Gin's "collection," he comes dangerously close to jumping over the edge. [[spoiler: Fortunately, Sung Il, and a sizable portion of the Chunbunmoon clan is there to stop him.]]

* LauncherOfAThousandShips: So far, Jee-Han has been paired with [[FieryRedhead Shi-Yun]], [[IllGirl Sung-Ah]] and [[TheTease Sae-Young]]. Some even go so far to pair him off with the [[CuteWitch Slaughter Witch]], and his best friend, [[HoYay Sun-Il]]. Did we mention that he has a [[{{Lolicon}} loli]] for an Earth summon? Chapter 102 later adds [[ClassRepresentative Kim Yoo-Jin]] to the shipping list.

* ValuesDissonance: Physical abuse from teachers? Even without all the more super-natural examples of DeliberateValuesDissonance, a western reader might find the casual corporal punishment Jee-Han's teachers employ to be... unmerited.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: Some consider the first chapter to be this which gives off the vibe that the story is going to be a SliceOfLife type of story that ends up with the main-character somehow having the ability to read life like a gamer would. That however, gets thrown out the window completely when the second chapter comes around and becomes a more [[{{Fantasy}} supernatural]] setting you would come to expect from role-playing games.

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Some wonder if, deep down, Jee-Han is actually a sociopath that truly enjoys killing others, and uses the Gaming ability as an excuse for having such murderous thoughts, or whether he really was just your run-of-the-mill game addict until the world forced an ability on him that ''forces'' his mind to work the way it does, and his resulting views and thoughts on violence and death are merely the byproduct. To his credit he does at least seem disturbed by the fact that he's not disturbed by it.

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Some wonder if deep down, Jee-Han is actually a sociopath that truly enjoys killing others, and uses the Gaming ability as an excuse for having such murderous thoughts, or whether he really was just your run-of-the-mill game addict until the world forced an ability on him that ''forces'' his mind to work the way it does, and his resulting views and thoughts on violence and death are merely the byproduct. To his credit he does at least seem disturbed by the fact that he's not disturbed by it.

* SnarkBait: Translators just can't resist making snide comments about the story scenes in the margins. In chapter 136, when Kim Yoo Jin shows concern that the boss of floor 5 wll turn out to be a Kraken, the translators say "this will turn into a hentai in a hurry."